has anybody any experience of auricular acupuncture..either as a

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pateient or a prcationer?

that'll be as a patient or practitioner

or even know anything about it?

it's needles in the ears

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No idea, but I have had accupunture in my back for a neck injury (sustained from falling down the stairs) and it worked wonders. Not particularly painful either. What is auricular accupunture used for?

lots of things apparently but things like addictions...drinking, smoking and drug abuse

Anxiety
Arthritis
Asthma
Back Pain
Colitis
Depression
Hay Fever
Addictions, e.g. Alcohol, Drugs etc.
Headaches
Hiatus Hernia
Indigestion
Insomnia
Migraine
Obesity
P.M.S.
Sciatica
Shingles
Sinusitis
Stopping Smoking
Tendonitis
Tennis Elbow
M.E.

I'll give this one more try out of curiosity

Doesn't normal acupuncture do all that?
I had normal acupuncture once as a teenager for migraines and it was like a nightmare. I felt paralysed as everytime I twitched a muscle the entire limb would be in agony - I was terrified there'd be a fire drill and I'd jump. I couldn't even speak to get help and was so upset I couldn't speak to the practitioner afterwards either.